Moneyhungry *******

[P8]

I used to be very eager to get FF XI, but somehow i didnt thought about whether you had to pay for this game or not. Well, since its almost being released here in the Netherlands, I got the idea of maybe you had to pay, and DAMN, on the PlayOnline server I read 11,95$ a month. dammit, are they low on cash or something? It will be about 8 euros or something but still... It isnt that expensive to maintain a server is it?
I used to play a game called Ragnarok Online, also a P2P game. But lucky me heared from someone there was a server running for free. The people behind this game only wanted donations to keep the server running. It was a very good server and caused no lag. this server, if i remember correctly (which of course isnt the case) wanted 300$ for 6 months for a server which was able to support about 500 players.
Now my calculation: roughly about 2.000.000 people playing worldwide?
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costs:
2.000.000/500 = 4.000
so the server costs are 4.000 x 300 = 1.200.000 $ for 6 months for 2 mil players.
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incomes:
2.000.000 x 5$ (average income per sold cd worldwide?) = 10.000.000
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10.000.000/1.200.000 = 8,33
so only with the incomes of the game itself it can maintain the server for 8,33 x 6 = 50 months. thats more than 4 years!!


of course, this is only a rough calculation, and probably not very accurate. but that doesnt mean they have to charge 12$ per month to play, plus some extras if you want.

in my opinion, about 2$ - 2,5$ a month would be a nice price to play. but certainly not any higher, those moneyscrubbing bastards make hell of a lot money out of this.

any comments?